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Unfortunately, it turns out this is not a completely self contained binary - it's more of a packer. So if you pack a Java app, you're still going to need the JRE, and if you pack a .NET Framework app, you're still going the .NET Framework, etc.

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So I don't know what this is doing. But I know that microsoft is developing WPF to run in a fulled contained .NET Core binary. Meaning that there is no requirement of having any preinstalled software when running it. I would assume this technology to be translated into most any .NET core app.

Yes, any .NET Core app can already be 'published' as a self-contained app. That basically means it ships along with the .NET Core files (there are a lot of them), so you don't need to have a globally installed .NET Core to run it.

What Warp does is act like a packer, creating a thin, native executable that compresses and embeds all the files required to run your app, then decompresses them to disk the first time the app is executed.

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